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breathplay
Collaborative CD with Seattle-based composer Byron AuYong. Shakuhachi with water, voice, er-hu (Chinese fiddle), piano and an assortment of Asian percussion in a recording that pushes past the traditional and avant-garde to music both ancient and contemporary.

Tracks:
1. Water Whispers
2. San'ya
3. Elephant
4. BreathPlay
5. Cricket
6. Mist

Price: $15

This CD can be ordered directly through CDBaby

Visionary Tones
Two CD Set of Traditional and Contemporary Kinko Style Shakuhachi Music

　Disc No. 1
1. Sokaku Reibo (Song of the Cranres)
-- Kinko Style Honkyoku
2. Yugure no Kyoku (Evening Song)
-- Kinko Style Honkyoku
3. Shigure, Kagero, Katsuragi
-- Takahashi Yuji Disc No. 2
1. Sagari Ha no Kyoku (Song of the Falling Leaves)
-- Kinko Style Honkyoku
2. Tsuki no Kyoku (Song of the Moon)
-- Kinko Style Honkyoku
3. Byoh--for Shakuhachi Solo
--Hirose Ryohei

Bright One Records BOCH-0001

Price: 3000 yen (US$27).

Bamboo Voice - Human Flute
a collaboration of shakuhachi and song, with vocalist Mika Kimula.

1. Tamuke
2. Uguisu (The Nightengale)
3. Koujou no Tsuki (The Moon over the Ruined Castle)
4. Defune (Departing Boat)
5. Hama Chidori (BeachPlovers)
6. Kaze (Who Has Seen the Wind)
7. Mari to Tonosama (The Lord and the Ball)
8. Five Pieces Set to the Poems of Kaneko Misuzu
9. Osaka no Komoriuta (Osaka Lullaby)
10. Yamato Komoriuta (Yamato Lullaby)
11. Calligraphy for Voice and Bamboo
12. Samuyo Mukashi Banashi (Storytelling on a Winter's Night),
13. Song of Atitlan

Price: 2500 yen.


Heart of Bamboo　　　 a collaboration with American poet Sam Hamill reading his poetry with original and traditional shakuhachi music by Christopher Yohmei, accompanied by Elizabeth Falconer on koto.
This CD is a collaboration with American poet Sam Hamill reading his poetry in English with original and traditional shakuhachi music by Christopher Yohmei, accompanied by Elizabeth Falconer on koto.
	1. Heart of Bamboo 2. Waka from Only Companion 3. Song of the Dream Garden 4. Shunga 5. After Han Yu 6. Talking to Myself 7. True Illumination 8. A Lover's Quarrel 9. Midsummer 10. Four Letters to Hayden Carruth Price: $12. Orderable through Copper Canyon Press PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98386 360-385-4925 http://www.ccpress.org/


Zen Reveries 　 Shakuhachi and Synthesizer--Intelligent Relaxation Music.
	1.Another Kind of Dream 2.Gendai Choshi * 3.Pale Lights 4.Morning Becomes Electric 5.Replay 6.Zen Mondoh --All compositions by Christopher Yohmei and UEHARA Kazuo Gendai Choshi by Christopher Yohmei Christopher Yohmei Blasdel: Shakuhachi, Kazuo Uehara: Synthesizer (1996) Moonbridge MBR1023 (A few copies still available. Please mail me for ordering details).

Night of the Garuda (1992)
Teichiku Records TECY-28030 (Sold out)

1. Night of The Garuda, improvisation for shakuhachi and ryuuteki
Composed by Christopher Yohmei and SHIBA Sukeyasu

2. Tsuki, for shakuhachi and sho
Composed by MASSUMOTO Kikuko 3.The Song of Atitlan, for shakuhachi and soprano
Composed by Christopher Yohmei 4. Hi-fu-mi Hachigaeshi Shirabe, Kinko style honkyoku

5. Mama no Kawa, for shamisen and shakuhachi
Composed by KIKUOKA Kengyoo


Voices from Afar, Voices from Within (1990) Teichiku Records TECY-28030 (Sold out)
	1. Yearnings, shakuhachi solo Composed by Christopher Yohmei 2. Dorian Dance, for shakuhachi and twenty-stringed koto Composed by Christopher Yohmei 3. The Gates of Heaven and Earth, for shakuhachi and double bass Composed by Christopher Yohmei and YOSHIZAWA Motoharu 4. Storytelling on a Winter's Night, for shakuhachi and soprano Composed by TAKEUCHI Akihiko 5. The Shadow of the Rose, for shakuhachi and oud Composed by Christopher Yohmei and Hamza el DIN 6.Worthless Shakuhachi--Five Songs from the Kanginshuu, for shakuhachi, soprano, narrative and shamisen Composed by Christopher Yohmei 7. Tears of Heaven, for shakuhachi and piano Composed by Michael REIMANN

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breathplay Collaborative CD with Seattle-based composer Byron AuYong. Shakuhachi with water, voice, er-hu (Chinese fiddle), piano and an assortment of Asian percussion in a recording that pushes past the traditional and avant-garde to music both ancient and contemporary.

Visionary Tones Two CD Set of Traditional and Contemporary Kinko Style Shakuhachi Music

Bamboo Voice - Human Flute a collaboration of shakuhachi and song, with vocalist Mika Kimula.

Heart of Bamboo a collaboration with American poet Sam Hamill reading his poetry with original and traditional shakuhachi music by Christopher Yohmei, accompanied by Elizabeth Falconer on koto.

Zen Reveries

breathplay
Collaborative CD with Seattle-based composer Byron AuYong. Shakuhachi with water, voice, er-hu (Chinese fiddle), piano and an assortment of Asian percussion in a recording that pushes past the traditional and avant-garde to music both ancient and contemporary.

Visionary Tones
Two CD Set of Traditional and Contemporary Kinko Style Shakuhachi Music

Bamboo Voice - Human Flute
a collaboration of shakuhachi and song, with vocalist Mika Kimula.

Heart of Bamboo　
　　 a collaboration with American poet Sam Hamill reading his poetry with original and traditional shakuhachi music by Christopher Yohmei, accompanied by Elizabeth Falconer on koto.